Two cinnabar lacquer snuff bottles, two cloisonné enamel snuff bottles and three others
19th/20th centuryA flattened pear-shaped cinnabar lacquer bottle with inlays to both sides of flowers in malachite, lapis lazuli and other minerals, 6.3cm high; a flattened oviform cinnabar lacquer bottle deeply carved in relief with a lady on a terrace to each side, Qianlong zhuanshu mark, 5.2cm high; a double gourd cloisonné example, 7.1cm high; a flattened pear-shape cloisonné example on oval footrim, 6.8cm high; a plique-à-jour oviform example with floral decoration, 5cm high; a lac burgauté snuff bottle of inverted horseshoe-shape with landscapes to each face and diaper to shoulder and sides, 4.6cm high; and a white metal example with two shield-shaped reliefs depicting phoenix between inlaid floral motifs in turquoise, 6.2cm high.All with original matching stoppers. (14).
注脚
Provenance: from a collection amassed in Hong Kong during the late 1960s and early 1970s by an English civil engineer working on the first cross-harbour tunnel and later in the 1970s on the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) and now by descent to the current owner.